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<p>I asked this somewhere already and got a bit of insight and feedback and link to some reading, thank you to those that took a minute to help. (excuse my ignorance in the forum as I'm totally new to this HO model railroading and related sites).</p><p>My boys and I have set up a new HO train set. We have already expanded it a couple times to cover two 4x8 boards. Now I have put in a reversing loop and need to understand how to wire it up. I have the 8'-10' of reversing loop insulated at both ends. Per the previous advice, I bought a package of four DPDT switches (Miniatronics Corp. 5amp 120vAC/28vDC) from the LHS (I hope they are right...they look like the schematic I saw).</p><p>Now, do I wire up one DPDT switch to just the reversing loop? Or, one DPDT switch to the reversing loop and one to the main railroad line? Not really sure how this all should work. </p><p>Any advise? Any links or drawings you can share with me.</p><p>I'll try to attach the scematics I found...they didn't have any real instructions other than the pic. But maybe you could mark them up to show me what I'm suppossed to be doing here.</p><p>Thanks a ton </p><p>CooHead </p><p>Shoot, how do I attach a picture?</p>
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